Elections
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![Winsome Sears](/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/2024-09/GettyImages-1364839118.jpg?h=49297a70&itok=RQKKVDTA)
Virginia Lieutenant Governor Sears files to run for governor in 2025
"The future of the Commonwealth of Virginia is here, and it starts today," Sears posted to X on Thursday. "I'm excited, honored, and humbled to announce that I am running to serve as your next governor."
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![A ballot drop box](/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/2022-10/GettyImages-1342327252.jpg?h=84071268&itok=IHnKU9JF)
Ballot Drop Box Battles: States, municipalities seek to ban them as November election nears
"I do not believe drop boxes represent a safe, secure, or statutory basis for absentee voting," said Wyoming Secretary of State Chuck Gray (R).
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![Dmitri Simes](/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/2024-09/GettyImages-1258743918.jpg?h=2d5be524&itok=3CGSZACm)
Former 2016 Trump campaign adviser charged for work with sanctioned Russian TV outlet since 2022
According to the indictment, Simes and his wife received over $1 million dollars and a personal car with a driver as part of the deal for their work.